Whether you are coming to the end of your servers’ lifecycle or standardizing on open source applications for cloud deployment, this SUSE Solution Guide can help you migrate from UNIX to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in 3 stages.

What if you could use a reliable operating system for your servers, while getting easier and faster updates to the specific packages each server needs? The new modular design of SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 makes this possible.

Introduced with SUSE® Linux Enterprise 12, systemd is the new system startup and service manager for Linux, replacing the old System V init (SysV init). Now you can forget everything you ever knew about how Linux systems start up and manage services. systemd is different, and you need to understand how to work with it.

One way to ensure that you are getting the most from your IT resources is to keep your infrastructure software maintained and up to date. Just like proper maintenance is required to keep your automobile running at peak performance, your operating system software needs to be patched and updated at periodic intervals to ensure maximum

Included with SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12 are the latest open-source virtualization technologies, Xen and KVM. With these hypervisors SUSE Linux Enterprise Server can be used to provision, de-provision, install, monitor and manage multiple virtual machines (VM guests) on a single physical system.